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It is not customary to love what one has

Anatole France

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth

It is not customary to love what one has

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